Night Waves

Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney (pictured) talks tonight about his 11th collection of poems, Electric Light, to be published on April 9.

In this new volume, Heaney journeys through time and space, revisiting both his own childhood in rural Ireland, and sites in the classical world.

The theme of Electric Light is the electrification that transformed every aspect of rural life during the course of the 20th century.

In some of the more remote parts of Ireland, electricity did not arrive until the Sixties, leaving older Irish people with a permanent sense of dislocation as they compare today's living conditions with those of their childhood and youth.